Future of Enterprise Search – Taxonomy versus Folksonomy

This was a vendor pitch from Connectbeam. They have a appliance product that supplies folksonomy and tagging services for your enterprise search. Not really what I was expecting, but interesting. We went to their booth after the presentation. The booths are the WORST vendor area I have ever seen. They are tightly packed with no room for discussion. They are also over crowded, as this is where the drinks are in the evenings. The amount of noise in the area is phenomenal, adding to this, they scheduled classes in a "vendor showcase" at the rear of the room. This was one of the vendor showcases.

The product does look interesting, in that it integrates with your existing search result, providing a "bump" to relevancy based on tags, number of times tagged and number of times added to favorites. The product looked interesting, and was not insanely expensive.